About this season
Property renovator Simon O'Brien charts the stories of brave homeowners who are risking everything to breathe new life into some of the country's most dilapidated properties. Run down, boarded up and falling to bits, most people who run a mile from these houses. But, in My Dream Derelict Home, fifteen brave couples are putting everything on the line to save them.
Episodes (15)
1. Episode 1
Aired 7 March 2014 • 60 min
Nick and Tamsin struggle to renovate a Victorian semi with just 40,000 pounds.
2. Episode 2
Aired 14 March 2014 • 60 min
Dylan and Veronica huddle together in a cramped caravan while they restore a derelict workshop.
3. Episode 3
Aired 21 March 2014 • 60 min
Marcus and Catherine battle injury and financial trouble to renovate their 18th-century farmhouse.
4. Episode 4
Aired 28 March 2014 • 60 min
Kriss and Michelle's sorry-looking Derbyshire wreck is about to be turned into a glorious farmstead.
5. Episode 5
Aired 5 April 2014 • 60 min
A Portsmouth carpenter makes over a tired, old Georgian mansion into a glorious home with modern glazing.
6. Episode 6
Aired 11 April 2014 • 60 min
More dream-like renovations as bricklayer Kevin tries to persuade wife Amanda that converting a run-down mansion is a better bet than moving to Australia.
7. Episode 7
Aired 18 April 2014 • 60 min
A couple in Stilton need to make their budget work for them in order to transform their tumbledown cottage into a dream home.
8. Episode 8
Aired 25 April 2014 • 60 min
Stephen and Jo can't afford to chicken out of their ambitious building project as they turn a pigsty and hen coop into their dream retirement home.
9. Episode 9
Aired 2 May 2014 • 60 min
Andy Wilson and his wife attempt to sell their Victorian house in order to raise the money to renovate an Edwardian property in Derbyshire and turn it into a family home.
10. Episode 10
Aired 9 May 2014 • 60 min
A colony of noctural creatures drive David and Rosie batty as they renovate a Methodist chapel in Derbyshire.
11. Episode 11
Aired 16 May 2014 • 60 min
Matt and Margareta's dreams of converting a former dairy have been thwarted by planning permission problems.
12. Episode 12
Aired 23 May 2014 • 60 min
Adrian and Dawn mine the depths of their resources to create a beautiful country home in Shropshire.
13. Episode 13
Aired 30 May 2014 • 60 min
Bryan and Mari-Ann attempt to turn a servants' training school into a delightful family home.
14. Episode 14
Aired 6 June 2014 • 60 min
Investment manager Alan hedges his bets when transforming a threshing barn into a modern home.
15. Episode 15
Aired 13 June 2014 • 60 min
Plasterer Chris and wife Jemma join forces with her father to renovate a faded grade II listed house into something more beautiful.